madjam: seen and unseen

The madjam rise each evening in a black cloud that stitches sky to earth. These grey-headed flying foxes endure as kin and are essential pollinators who sustain the flowering systems of Country and carry ancestral story through their nightly flight. This work attends to the flight between canopy and suburb, where ecological survival meets human routine. It reflects the tension of co-existence, where human comfort presses against Country and what is unseen and misunderstood risks erasure.

Woven from paper through matrilineal techniques, the madjam hang in sleepy suspension. The material holds both vulnerability and persistence, carrying the gestures of making and the residue of care. Madjam embody endurance and interconnection, finding living threads between bush and streetlight, memory and present time: reminding us that Country continues, moving around and through us, whether seen or unseen.